New Moon

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Caribou Antler (Nunavik, Quebec) Black Marble (Chimborazo, Ecuador) White Alabaster Gray Stone (Chimborazo, Ecuador) 20" X 11" X 7.5" 2001

The inspiration for this piece was a beautiful new moon I saw one night last summer when I was in Ecuador. It struck me, because the white part of the moon was not so much on the side, as I'm used to seeing it here in Canada, but underneath, cradling the dark side of the moon. The faint outline of the dark side was also visible against the backdrop of the clear night sky, and I began to think of how I could reproduce that image and feeling in sculpture.

I thought it appropriate to use Ecuadorian stone for half of the moon and the base, and the antler given to me by a friend provided a perfect setting for separating the moon from the earth. Making the sphere out of two different stones was quite a challenge, as was connecting it to the antler. I wanted to allow the moon to rotate, so the screw, with the head in the middle of the sphere, is glued into the antler, but not onto the stone.